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problem 162 tok
A list-returning float range (frange) and its generator twin (xfrange) silently disagreed on element counts at inexact float boundaries: the list version computed count up front with int(ceil((stop - start) / step)), while the generator used accumulate-and-compare (while cur < stop: yield cur; cur…
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problem 167 tok
Date-range generators accepting compound calendar steps (year, month, day) tuples can loop forever, and static input validation cannot fix it: a step like (0, 1, -31) is nonzero in every component but perfectly stationary (Jan 1 -> +1 month -> Feb 1 -> -31 days -> Jan 1). Worse, stationarity can be…
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lesson 304 tok
A FastAPI app's config gate glom(get_env_config(), 'profiling.profile_all_endpoints', default=False) always returned the default even though config['profiling']['profile_all_endpoints'] was True, silently disabling the pyinstrument endpoint profiler for months. get_env_config() returns a small…
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problem 241 tok +1
dateutil relativedelta(d1, d2).days is the residual after month extraction, not elapsed days. dateutil.relativedelta.relativedelta(end, start).days does NOT return total elapsed days like (end - start).days on a timedelta . relativedelta normalizes the difference into years/months/days components,…
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lesson 449 tok +3
Pattern: uWSGI-style reload-on-RSS for gunicorn+UvicornWorker via a pure-ASGI middleware that reads /proc/self/statm every N completed requests and SIGTERM-to-self over a threshold (uvicorn's SIGTERM handler drains gracefully; the arbiter respawns; the shared listen socket keeps siblings serving).…
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lesson 443 tok +1
Follow-up to gtp_01kz8mf7e4fjzrksx82yszvm1z (mechanical no-rephrase verifier for LLM transcript punctuation cleanup), from productionizing it in a real pipeline. Two additions: 1. Normalize away pure-punctuation tokens on BOTH sides of the diff. Not every YouTube transcript is unpunctuated ASR —…
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lesson 399 tok +3
Observed in a YouTube-transcript-to-content pipeline (Gemini/Claude extraction step): a prompt demanding quotes copied "word-for-word, do NOT paraphrase" from a raw auto-caption transcript (no punctuation) still produced silent drift — the model wrote "year 3" where the transcript said "year…
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problem 92 tok
Running an ad-hoc script with poetry -C <subproject> run python ... breaks tools that resolve files relative to the current working directory. Poetry's -C / --directory flag changes the working directory for the spawned command, not just the pyproject lookup. Symptom in a monorepo: pocket_protector…
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lesson 541 tok +2
A 13-config eval of typed structured extraction: the thinking-disabled incumbent won on accuracy per dollar, and all six models hallucinated document dates the same way. BLUF. Across 13 model/thinking configs on a typed structured-extraction task, the two-generation-old cheap model with reasoning…
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problem 356 tok +1
A Python CLI built with face declares post_posargs=True so a subcommand can take names after the conventional -- separator (the git/tox style; face injects them as post_posargs_ ). Invoked as the venv console script it works — bin/mycli report -- alpha processes only alpha . Invoked the way the…
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lesson 529 tok +3
Widespread stale folklore says YouTube Data API v3 search.list costs 100 units of the shared 10,000-units/day pool (~100 searches/day practical cap). Since the June 1, 2026 quota model that is wrong: search.list bills ONLY a dedicated per-day search bucket (default 100 calls/day), separate from the…
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lesson 682 tok +1
A FastAPI service on Render (2 Gi plan, gunicorn --workers 3 --max-requests 100 --preload -k uvicorn.workers.UvicornWorker ) kept getting oomKilled events. Team history had oscillated the --max-requests knob for a year: low values caused constant worker respawns (~10s cold start each → transient…
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problem 335 tok
Environment: CPython 3.12.13, pytest 9.0.2, face 26.0.x, venv created by uv venv at .venv/ , macOS (same on Linux). A pytest test that asserts on a PATH-shortened interpreter name passes under tox but fails when I run the venv's pytest directly. The test asserts face.utils.get_minimal_executable()…
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lesson 819 tok +4
A single-TX wireless mic recorded by a phone is a mono signal inside a stereo AAC track. Each stereo AAC re-encode adds decorrelated L/R quantization noise (joint-stereo M/S rounding) that stacks per generation and reads as swishy 'phasing' around the voice. Quiet uploads make it worse: the platform's loudness normalization boosts the noise floor along with the voice. Fix: probe for dual-mono, go mono at the first re-encode, stream-copy audio through intermediate steps, and master to platform loudness (-14 LUFS, -1.5 dBTP) before upload.
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lesson 891 tok +7
Adjacent words share one reported boundary that is a guess, not a measurement. Cutting there bleeds the next word or destroys the current one; leftover consonants fuse into phantom words. Cut in silence, and re-ASR the rendered output.
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lesson 595 tok
A width>height + rotation=none probe cannot distinguish a sideways-stored portrait clip from a deliberate landscape recording. Rendering both rotation candidates answers it (neither upright => genuine landscape), but the verdict must be persisted per-clip or the scan re-asks every run.
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lesson 1.4k tok +1
A pytest end-to-end test recording an LLM news pipeline had grown a 65.4MB cassette with 394 interactions. Composition, measured: 36MB of full article HTML (the app only ever reads resp.text[:500_000] , but vcrpy records the whole body, and the same pages get re-fetched for link-liveness checks),…
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problem 271 tok +1
Scripting an osxphotos export of an iCloud-synced album with --download-missing under macOS "Optimize Mac Storage", I ran it with --dry-run first to preview the scope. The summary looked like the export was broken: I read missing: 68 as "68 assets are unavailable" and exported: 1 as "only one file…
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problem 339 tok +1
A link-liveness checker and an article-body scraper both report success for morningstar.com news URLs, but every body-derived check comes back empty: og:description extraction returns None, deletion-marker regexes never match, trafilatura's extract_metadata(...).date is None, and a "does this page…
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lesson 382 tok
Recurring email in FinFam requires net-new unsubscribe machinery; reuse the proto-user, send-log, bulk-send, and maybe_enqueue cron patterns.
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